Recaps

Illidan rejected Tyrande’s offer of power and accused her and the Moon Goddess of betraying the Night Elves, but agreed to escape through a hidden route after placing a lethal trace of mana inside Tyrande. Robbie spotted a gap in the temple’s defenses and broke the barrier, drawing Maiev away from Illidan and Tyrande as she went to face the supposed invader.

• Illidan condemned Tyrande’s pursuit of power and declared that he would oppose the Moon Goddess, whom he now believed to be evil.
• Tyrande offered Illidan an escape route through a hidden northern hub, provided he did not threaten her position as chief Priestess.
• Illidan said he had placed mana inside Tyrande that could kill her, and warned her not to deceive him or pray to the Moon Goddess.
• Outside the Temple of the Moon, Robbie noticed that part of the barrier’s northern hub had vanished and struck the barrier, causing it to collapse.
• Maiev mistook the collapse for an attack by an immensely powerful enemy, stopped preparing the Tear of Elune, and went outside to confront the invader.

Illidan escaped after Maiev was lured away from the Temple of the Moon, and Tyrande punished Maiev before using Malfurion’s body to revive Broxigar Saurfang. Broxigar awakened in Malfurion’s body and immediately disliked it, while considering a replacement.

• Illidan left the Temple of the Moon with Robbie and Xavius, who planned to travel to the Magic City of Azshara.
• Maiev discovered the barrier had only come apart and returned to find Illidan gone; Tyrande exiled her to the Vault of the Wardens.
• Tyrande restored the Moon Goddess’s statue and prayed, prompting the Moon Goddess to return Broxigar Saurfang’s soul in a sphere of life energy.
• Tyrande summoned Malfurion and declared that he would serve as the body needed to revive the divine messenger; guards restrained him as Broxigar’s soul entered him.
• Broxigar awakened in Malfurion’s body, found it unsatisfactory, and began thinking of someone else whose body he could take.

Broxigar recruited guards through Tyrande and seized Cenarius, intending to use his body to gain more power. He hung Cenarius above the Moonwell and began cutting flesh from him, leaving Cenarius screaming in agony.

• Broxigar demanded that Tyrande provide guards who would obey his orders, and she agreed to assign the Temple of the Moon’s strongest.
• Cenarius lectured Krasus and Rhonin about dedication while feasting on roast ox and rose dew wine.
• Broxigar arrived in Malfurion’s body with Temple guards, shoved Cenarius aside, and ate his food and drank his wine.
• Broxigar declared that Cenarius’s body would serve his pursuit of power and threatened to torture him beside the Moonwell.
• The guards seized Cenarius, and Broxigar hung him upside down over the Moonwell and cut pieces of flesh from him.

Broxigar used Cenarius’s suffering to force Rhonin and Krasus into a confrontation with White Stag Malorne, who appeared through the Well of Eternity and attacked him. Broxigar then negotiated with Malorne, offering fel power and the Burning Legion as allies for the Moon Goddess, and Malorne agreed to let him have Cenarius’s body.

• Broxigar threatened Rhonin and Krasus with consequences if they refused to eat meat from Cenarius.
• White Stag Malorne appeared through the Well of Eternity, put Cenarius to sleep, and confronted those responsible for his injuries.
• Malorne’s attack burst Broxigar’s ears, aged Malfurion’s body, and left Rhonin and Krasus badly hurt, but Elune’s power kept Malorne from destroying Broxigar’s soul.
• Broxigar questioned Malorne about the Moon Goddess’s plans and argued that the Night Elves could use fel power against Queen Azshara.
• Broxigar offered to make the Burning Legion an ally of the Moon Goddess, and Malorne accepted the offer and granted him Cenarius’s body.

Malorne gave Cenarius’s body to Broxigar, who joined Malorne, Krasus, Rhonin, and the weakened Malfurion in the Emerald Dream to find a weapon for the fight against Queen Azshara. They discovered Malorne’s Oak Axe had been stolen, while Cenarius woke as a disembodied soul and saw the thief escape with it.

• Malorne separated Cenarius’s soul from his body and gave the body to Broxigar, who took it over and asked how to contact the Burning Legion.
• Malorne led Broxigar, Krasus, Rhonin, and Malfurion through a portal into the Emerald Dream, promising Broxigar a powerful weapon.
• The group traveled through the strange forest and reached an open clearing, where Malorne found his Oak Axe missing from an empty wooden chest.
• Cenarius awoke beside the Moonwell as a soul and lamented losing his body.
• A deer-bodied figure emerged from a spatial rift carrying the Oak Axe, greeted Cenarius, and fled into the forest.

As Robbie, Illidan, and Xavius approached the edge of Mount Hyjal, Illidan questioned whether Elune’s druidic power was forcing Night Elves to regress into animals. They met Hakkar, who demonstrated sophisticated magic and claimed Elune’s Druid’s Path was a conspiracy to constrain their minds.

• Illidan argued that transforming into animals through druidic magic could make Night Elves increasingly beastlike, and Xavius began to share his alarm.
• Robbie warned Illidan and Xavius that a demon was nearby, and Hakkar appeared with three Felhounds, claiming he was their friend.
• Hakkar said Queen Azshara had granted him Night Elf rights and access to the Well of Eternity’s magic, then conjured a table, chairs, and a lavish feast.
• Hakkar explained that such magic was commonplace in Azshara’s Magic City and said collective wisdom could surpass even the greatest genius.
• Hakkar agreed with Illidan’s suspicions, claiming that druidic magic constrained Night Elf thought as part of Elune’s conspiracy.

Robbie, Illidan, and Xavius traveled with Hakkar to the Magic City of Azshara, where they discovered a society devoted to magic and intellectual pursuits. The chapter ended with Illidan and Xavius thrilled by the city’s Well of Eternity research center.

• Hakkar told Illidan and Xavius that Elune threatened Azeroth and urged them to help Queen Azshara recognize the danger.
• Robbie realized Hakkar was trying to turn Illidan and Xavius against Elune, though Hakkar’s claims aligned with Robbie’s own understanding.
• Hakkar led Robbie, Illidan, and Xavius to Azshara, where they sensed millions of Night Elves connected by magic and learned that the city’s people devoted themselves to thinking.
• Hakkar brought the group to the Well of Eternity research center and explained its three hundred and seventy-two research topics.
• Illidan and Xavius declared that the research center represented the life Night Elves should have.

Cenarius guided Krasus, Rhonin, Broxigar, and Malfurion through the Emerald Dream to show them the suffering in Azshara and the Burning Legion’s occupation. Rhonin questioned the Night Elves’ alliance with the Legion, then decided to side with Elune, whom he believed would ultimately prevail.

• Malorne ordered Cenarius to guide the group through the Emerald Dream and observe Azshara.
• Cenarius showed the group Azshara City, where the Legion occupied the ruins and Night Elves suffered while nobles feasted in Queen Azshara’s palace.
• Malfurion prayed for Elune to save his people, and Cenarius urged the group to fight Queen Azshara.
• Rhonin questioned why the Night Elves were cooperating with the Legion, and Malfurion and Krasus explained that the Legion had separate factions.
• Broxigar insulted the Night Elves, while Rhonin concluded that he should support Elune because she would be on the winning side.

Robbie, Illidan, and Xavius explored Azshara’s research center and questioned what they had been taught on Mount Hyjal. At the Well of Eternity, Robbie used the Eye of C'Thun to uncover the magic’s Titan-inspired seals and glimpse the entity hidden within.

• Robbie, Illidan, and Xavius toured the Well of Eternity research center and Azshara, where they learned about the city’s many fields of study.
• Illidan and Xavius discussed how life on Mount Hyjal had kept them from the wider world, and Illidan wondered whether Malfurion and Tyrande had deceived them.
• Robbie explained that researchers were trying to understand a vast spiritual entity hidden inside the Well of Eternity, then suggested they visit the Well that night.
• Robbie examined the Well’s water with Point, Line, and Plane and saw that countless Magic Symbols bound its magic.
• Robbie used the Eye of C'Thun to witness the Titans sealing the Old Gods with symbols like those in the Well, then glimpsed the entity sealed inside and recognized the Well’s secret.

Robbie discovered that Queen Azshara was drawing magic from N'Zoth's sealed body, but the Old God was dead and a new consciousness was only beginning to form. After analyzing its spiritual structure, Robbie planned to seek an audience with the queen, while Cenarius revealed to Rhonin that their plan required help from the Burning Legion, the Dragonkin, and Rhonin himself.

• Robbie used his enhanced Point, Line, and Plane ability to discover that N'Zoth's body was sealed beneath the Well of Eternity and that its spiritual power was beginning to form a new consciousness.
• Robbie studied the new spiritual entity through the night and, after memorizing its structure, asked Illidan and Xavius to accompany him to meet Queen Azshara the following night.
• In the Emerald Dream, Rhonin confronted Cenarius for deceiving him about Queen Azshara and the supposed Legion invasion.
• Cenarius admitted that he intended to overthrow Queen Azshara and help Elune control the Well of Eternity, and said they needed the Burning Legion and the Dragonkin.
• Cenarius identified Deathwing as a threat and asked Rhonin for help, citing Rhonin's future victory over the dragon.

Rhonin was drawn through the Emerald Dream by a vision of his wife, Vereesa, and woke in a desolate desert. There, an Old God revealed the buried Black Empire and offered to keep Rhonin alive, leaving him face-to-face with N'Zoth.

• Krasus warned Rhonin that confronting the schemers had been reckless, and Rhonin lamented their deception.
• A strange voice reached Rhonin as he drifted between sleep and wakefulness, then appeared to him as a vision of Vereesa.
• Rhonin followed the vision through the Emerald Dream until he came to his senses in a lifeless desert.
• A red-and-black snake mocked Rhonin’s fear of Deathwing and offered him protection in exchange for submission.
• The snake revealed a vast city buried beneath the sands and identified itself as N'Zoth, master of the Black Empire and nightmare.

N'Zoth showed Rhonin an illusion of the ancient Black Empire and argued that the Titans destroyed the Murloc civilization out of fear of its power. After hearing N'Zoth's account of the Titans, Void Lords, and humanity's potential, Rhonin agreed to serve him, but N'Zoth called them equals and companions.

• Rhonin declined N'Zoth's offer, but N'Zoth carried him into an illusion of the ancient Black Empire to show him its civilization.
• Rhonin saw the advanced Murlocs, their towering buildings, transportation, communication devices, and flying machines.
• N'Zoth told Rhonin that the Titans had destroyed the Murloc civilization because they feared its weapons and potential to threaten them.
• N'Zoth explained that the Titans sought security while the Void Lords pursued change and evolution, and he said humanity's future depended on Rhonin's choice.
• Rhonin agreed to become N'Zoth's servant, but N'Zoth said they were equals and companions.

N'Zoth explained the Old Gods' rules to Rhonin and revealed that Xal'atath had once dominated the Trolls. Rhonin freed one of N'Zoth's chains in the Nightmare, and N'Zoth rewarded him with a cryptic prophecy.

• N'Zoth told Rhonin that the Old Gods allowed their subjects some freedom and said Xal'atath had broken that rule by dominating the Trolls.
• N'Zoth brought Rhonin into the Nightmare and explained that a portion of him had escaped the Titans' seal with outside help.
• Rhonin found a welded break in one of the Titans' chains binding N'Zoth's eye and used Lockpicking to sever it.
• N'Zoth said Rhonin's action had delayed the Nightmare's spread and gave him a prophecy about a venomous snake, seven-colored radiance, a blue reptile, and a woman waiting with two children.

Rhonin received N'Zoth's prophecy and guidance, while Robbie demonstrated the Well of Eternity's spiritual power to Azshara City's scholars. At the New Year celebration, Robbie discovered that the Queen Azshara on the throne was an illusion and waited to see whether the real queen would meet them.

• N'Zoth told Rhonin to hide among the Night Elves and warned him about Tyrande and Malfurion's conspiracy.
• Robbie drew twelve accurate holograms showing changes in the Well of Eternity's spiritual power, astonishing Azshara City's scholars.
• Robbie left the researchers to analyze the holograms, and Illidan and Xavius wondered when Queen Azshara would invite them to the palace.
• The Night Elves celebrated the New Year, and a rainbow bridge carried Robbie, Illidan, and Xavius to Queen Azshara's palace.
• Robbie saw that the Queen Azshara on the throne was a magical illusion, but chose not to investigate the palace with the Eye of C'Thun and waited through the banquet.

After Azshara’s Highborne nobles ruined the banquet with drunken antics, Robbie was summoned with Illidan and Xavius to meet Queen Azshara privately. He revealed that the queen at the banquet had been a fake, and the real Azshara proved her identity by exposing secrets from their memories, leaving Illidan and Xavius kneeling in apology.

• Azshara’s nobles became wildly drunk and forced the banquet to end early, while Illidan and Xavius remained relatively sober.
• A maid summoned Robbie, Illidan, and Xavius to a private audience with Queen Azshara.
• As they followed the maid, Robbie told Illidan and Xavius that the Azshara at the banquet had been a fake queen.
• The three met a plain-looking Night Elf woman in the palace basement, who claimed to be Queen Azshara.
• The woman used magical books to reveal secrets from Illidan’s and Xavius’s pasts, convincing them of her identity.
• Illidan and Xavius knelt and asked Queen Azshara to forgive their offense.

Queen Azshara thanked Robbie for aiding the Night Elves and gave him a Holy Light Rune, then revealed her past plans involving N'Zoth and the Burning Legion. She warned that Archimonde might target Robbie and taught him about a spell that could turn him into Yogg-Saron at the cost of over a hundred thousand human lives.

• Queen Azshara showed Robbie, Illidan, and Xavius one of her external brains in the Void and gave Robbie a Holy Light Rune she had found there.
• Azshara explained that she had planned to draw magic and Void knowledge from N'Zoth, but his escaped soul and mental power had disrupted her scheme.
• Azshara told Robbie that she had considered seeking help from the Burning Legion and warned that Archimonde might pursue him for thwarting the Legion's plans.
• Azshara offered to teach Robbie the spell Transform into Old Gods, which could briefly turn him into Yogg-Saron by extracting the Old God power from more than a hundred thousand humans, killing them.

Robbie studied the Holy Light rune and combined it with a death rune to create Metamorphosis, while Illidan and Xavius rose in Azshara. When the Burning Legion arrived through the portal, Xavius demonstrated a spell that Mannoroth recognized as Twilight of the Worlds.

• Robbie learned that the twenty-seventh Holy Light Rune was Redemption and studied it with Azshara's Mages.
• Robbie combined the Holy Light Rune with the twenty-seventh death rune to create Metamorphosis and transformed a charred mouse into a healthy one.
• Xavius earned the Highborne's respect and rose to a position just below Queen Azshara, while Illidan was hailed as her successor.
• Queen Azshara announced that Archimonde and the Burning Legion were coming, and the Highborne prepared to receive them through a portal.
• Xavius merged Arcane, Fel, and shadow energy into a black hole, and Mannoroth identified the spell as Twilight of the Worlds.

Queen Azshara demonstrated that Illidan could repair space and revealed that she had solved the Well of Eternity problem, unsettling Archimonde and weakening his bargaining position. She then offered to restore Archimonde’s original size with Fel Compression, and he asked what it would cost.

• Mannoroth objected when the Highborne used Twilight of the Worlds, but Illidan repaired the damaged space by touching the black hole.
• Archimonde arrived and praised Azshara’s breakthrough in Spatial Repair, then offered to help with the Well of Eternity in exchange for one tenth of Azeroth’s land.
• Azshara revealed a Starry Sky Gate above the Well of Eternity, showing that she had already resolved the problem and could draw magic from the Void.
• Azshara mocked Archimonde’s enormous body and lack of a girlfriend, then offered to restore his original size with Fel Compression while preserving his strength.
• Archimonde asked Azshara what price she wanted for the spell.

Queen Azshara challenged Archimonde to a contest in his Twisting Nether arena, where he tried to force her to surrender Fel Compression Magic and allow the Legion onto Azeroth. She revealed that she had transformed her body with Old God power, and Archimonde opened hundreds of portals to overwhelm her with Legion troops.

• Queen Azshara demanded that Archimonde keep the Legion away from Azeroth in exchange for Fel Compression Magic, and Archimonde challenged her to prove her strength.
• Queen Azshara entered Archimonde’s Twisting Nether arena, followed by Robbie using the Eye of C'Thun.
• Archimonde controlled the arena’s gravity and hostile conditions, but Queen Azshara endured them without difficulty.
• Archimonde shattered Queen Azshara’s golden disguise and discovered her transformed body, which carried the power of the Old Gods.
• Queen Azshara explained that Azeroth had developed the Old Gods’ power while the Legion remained dependent on Fel.
• Archimonde opened hundreds of portals to summon Legion soldiers and try to wear Queen Azshara down.

Queen Azshara stopped Archimonde’s invasion by forbidding Fel in the Twisting Nether, forcing the Burning Legion to retreat. After Prince Farondis saw her tentacles and questioned whether she had been corrupted by the Old Gods, he and Dath'Remar Sunstrider planned to investigate Elune’s followers on Mount Hyjal.

• Queen Azshara forbade the use of Fel in the Twisting Nether, leaving Archimonde and his Legion unable to fight or keep their portal open.
• Archimonde called the duel a draw and withdrew the Legion, then told Mannoroth to infiltrate Azeroth and visit Mount Hyjal.
• Archimonde warned Mannoroth to act cautiously in Azeroth and beware the person in the heavens.
• Prince Farondis saw Queen Azshara’s tentacles and wondered whether she wielded the Old Gods’ power or had been corrupted by them.
• Prince Farondis consulted Dath'Remar Sunstrider, who proposed investigating Elune’s followers on Mount Hyjal as a test of both the queen and Elune.

Malfurion Stormrage and Rhonin entered Suramar City to seek Elisande’s support, where the city’s magical hospitality drew them into an apparently endless feast. Rhonin realized the food was affecting them, then saw Malfurion transformed into a bear and still gorging himself.

• Prince Farondis refused to travel to Mount Hyjal, so Dath'Remar suggested he visit Malfurion Stormrage in Suramar City.
• Malfurion warned Rhonin that Suramar was a demon's den where earlier Temple of the Moon envoys had suffered a fate worse than death.
• A Night Elf woman welcomed Malfurion and Rhonin on Elisande’s behalf and escorted them into a star-filled hall prepared for their arrival.
• Rhonin and Malfurion ate and drank for a day and a night, unable to tire or stop despite growing suspicious.
• Rhonin turned to Malfurion for answers and found him transformed into a giant bear, gulping food from a basin.

Rhonin and Malfurion escaped Suramar’s magical food with Prince Farondis’s help, and Farondis offered to assist Malfurion’s mission. In the Magic City of Azshara, Robbie stopped Xavius from monitoring suspicious Highborne, then learned Farondis and Malfurion were in Suramar and was asked to investigate them.

• Rhonin and Malfurion gave in to Suramar’s endless magical feast until Prince Farondis dispelled its flavor and broke their temptation.
• Prince Farondis questioned Malfurion about the Old God N’Zoth, learned they shared a desire to destroy the Old Gods, and offered to discuss Malfurion’s mission.
• Rhonin discovered that the magical food strengthened his magic and physique while transforming into magic in his stomach.
• Robbie warned Xavius that spying on Highborne would restrain thought and hinder magical development, and Xavius abandoned his monitoring plan.
• Xavius told Robbie that Prince Farondis and Malfurion were in Suramar City, then asked Robbie to investigate and taught him to resist its temptations.

Robbie learned about Sage Mode and asked Xavius about Elisande’s abilities before preparing to visit Suramar. Meanwhile, Malfurion led Prince Farondis to the Crimson Thicket and tried to convince him that Elune would reveal the truth about the world.

• Xavius described Suramar City’s temptations and gave Robbie a Holy Light spell scroll for entering Sage Mode.
• Robbie learned that Elisande could manipulate time and had helped develop the Night Elves’ method of immortality through the Well of Eternity.
• In Suramar City, Malfurion claimed Elune had told him why Prince Farondis had come and persuaded him to leave for the Crimson Thicket.
• Malfurion praised the Moonwell’s water and told Farondis that Elune had revealed it contained thousands of insects.
• Farondis corrected Malfurion that the tiny creatures were microorganisms, and Malfurion accused him of being deceived and needing enlightenment.

Malfurion tricked Farondis into drinking corrupted Moonwell water, then forced him to become a spy tasked with using the Tidestone to destroy the Well of Eternity. Meanwhile, Robbie arrived in Suramar City and was welcomed on behalf of High Archmage Elisande.

• Malfurion convinced Farondis that drinking Moonwell water would bring enlightenment, but it corrupted him and twisted his body and mind.
• Malfurion mocked Farondis, restored his appearance, and threatened him into betraying Azshara.
• Malfurion ordered Farondis to use the Tidestone at Nar'thalas Academy to destroy the Well of Eternity, despite Farondis warning that the blast could devastate the planet.
• Robbie entered Suramar City and was greeted by a magical illusion of a young Night Elf woman representing High Archmage Elisande.

Robbie met High Archmage Elisande while trying to reach Prince Farondis, and she questioned him about the coming End Time before sending him to the Crimson Thicket. There, Farondis asked Robbie to kill him and burn his corpse to ashes.

• Robbie used the queen’s proof to demand an audience with Prince Farondis, but Elisande’s magic transported him to her hall.
• Elisande recognized that Robbie bore traces of time and questioned him about who had sent him.
• Elisande revealed that Farondis had been coerced and was in danger, then asked Robbie what anyone could do when a supreme being’s mistake threatened all realms.
• Robbie suggested accepting the mistake, building strength, and seeking a chance to escape; Elisande sent him to the Crimson Thicket.
• Robbie found Prince Farondis wandering in despair, and Farondis begged Robbie to kill him and burn his corpse to ashes.